As an organization grows in number of employees and activity, managing its assets becomes more complicated. Many companies have a large number of Power BI users, as well as a large number of reports, datasets, and other essential content for the use of the service.
As the number of assets in the Power BI environment increases, managing them can become extremely complex. For these companies, implementing a Power BI data governance framework is key and can prevent major problems.
Power BI is among the most used analytics and business intelligence tools by companies. At Bismart, as a Microsoft Power BI partner, we have been working with this set of services since our start and we have helped many corporations to make data-driven decisions by deploying corporate information systems based on Power BI.
In our experience working with organizations that want to leverage the benefits of Power BI, we often encounter a number of challenges related to managing content, users, permissions, and assets within the Power BI environment. As the amount of information and users increases, managing everything that happens in Power BI can become extremely complex.
Therefore, larger companies often require the implementation of data governance policies in Power BI in order to properly govern the environment and prevent lack of control from affecting user productivity in Power BI.
The lack of data governance measures in Power BI can:
Deploying a data governance framework in Power BI is not an easy task, especially because Power BI offers multiple asset management options: configuration of functionalities within our tenant, configuration of administrative permissions within each workspace or for each of the assets contained within a workspace, etc. The vast number of possibilities for managing content in Power BI can be overwhelming and create inconsistencies in the application of governance and security measures.
Also, the Power BI environment presents a number of challenges that make governance even more complex:
Because of these, when an organization wants to apply data governance measures to Power BI, they usually encounter a series of challenges that can end up compromising the implementation of governance policies.
The main problem areas for the application of data governance policies in Power BI are:
At Bismart we have developed our own approach to data governance in Power BI with the intention of helping organizations solve the most common issues by building a framework in which managing Power BI assets, empowering users, sharing information and controlling activity in the environment is not only easy, but also secure and productive.
Our data governance environment includes multiple services and solutions that meet the needs of the 5 main types of user roles in Power BI:
Our solutions cover the specific needs of the multiple scenarios and roles that coexist in Power BI:
In addition...
We have recently enhanced our data governance hub for Power BI with a new solution: Power BI Data Catalog.
With this tool you will be able to manage all Power BI documentation seamlessly, for the benefit of bothdata model authors and self-service users who will always have the necessary documentation at hand.
Check how the solution works in the webinar!
Power BI Data Catalog automatically documents datasets so that users can see and quantify the metrics, number of tables, columns, data types... contained in the datasets. This empowers business users with little technical knowledge when creating content and prevents them from getting lost in a data model that has, for example, many metrics. It also provides users with information about the functional descriptions they can use, which are often not taken into account.
With Power BI Data Catalog you will be able to:
The most outstanding advantages of Power BI Data Catalog are:
Conclusion
The application of data governance measures to Power BI is becoming increasingly significant, especially for companies that have a large number of reports, datasets and users working in Power BI.
At Bismart we have developed what we believe is the most effective and easiest method to deploy and maintain corporate a data governance framework for Power BI.
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